Muʿāwiyah. He remained with him for a month, shortening the prayer, and when the month of Ramadan arrived he did not fast (1).
The isnād is disconnected.
Shuʿbah and others transmitted from Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit:
I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Miswar say, “We were in a village of greater Syria called ʿAmmān, and Saʿd would pray two rakʿahs. We questioned him, and he replied, ‘We know better (2).’”
Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated from ʿAmr that Saʿd and Ibn ʿUmar attended the two arbiters.
Ibn ʿUyaynah also reported from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Saʿd, who said: “I asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, who am I?’ He answered, ‘Saʿd ibn Mālik ibn Wuhaib ibn ʿAbd Manāf ibn Zuhrah. Whoever says anything else, upon him be the curse of Allah (3).’”
Ibn Saʿd said: His mother was Ḥamnah bint Sufyān ibn Umayyah ibn ʿAbd Shams ibn ʿAbd Manāf (4).
Ibn Mandah stated: Saʿd embraced Islam at the age of seventeen, and he was short and broad-bodied,
(1) Recorded by Abd al-Razzaq (no. 4351). As for Zakariya ibn Umar, only Ibn Hibban rates him reliable, and he never met Saad; hence, as the author notes, the report is interrupted.
(2) Reported by Abd al-Razzaq (no. 4350) through al-Thawri from Habib…, and by al-Tahawi in Sharh Maani al-Athar 1/244 via Shubah from Habib; all the transmitters in this chain are trustworthy.
(3) The isnad is weak because of Ali ibn Zayd—namely Ibn Judan. The same report is found in al-Tabarani, al-Kabir (no. 289); al-Hakim 3/495; al-Fasawi 3/166; and Ibn Saad, Tabaqat 3/1/97, all through Ali ibn Zayd from Said ibn al-Musayyab. Al-Haythami mentions it in Majma al-Zawaid 9/153, noting that al-Tabarani and al-Bazzar transmit it both with connected and with broken chains, and that the narrators of the connected chain are declared reliable.
(4) Ibn Saad, Tabaqat 3/1/97; al-Hakim 3/495; and Ibn Hajar, Isabah 4/160, which erroneously states: “his mother was Hamzah.”